5,414 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.5% since 2020)
517 square miles of land · 10 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
8 active community water systems list Coal County in the area they serve, reporting 4,013 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| COALGATE PWA surface water · local government · OK1010402 | 2,005 served |
| LEHIGH groundwater · local government · OK2001501 | 396 served |
| TUPELO PWA buys groundwater · local government · OK3001506 | 377 served |
| COAL CO RWD #5 buys surface water · local government · OK3001505 | 366 served |
| CLARITA-OLNEY RWD buys surface water · local government · OK3001501 | 360 served |
| ROUNDHILL RWD #4 buys surface water · local government · OK3001504 | 219 served |
| COAL CO RW&SWMG #6 buys surface water · private · OK3001502 | 150 served |
| PHILLIPS RWD #1 buys surface water · local government · OK3001503 | 140 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 7 people were held in Coal County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 225 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 14.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
3 school districts have their office in Coal County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $11.1 million — $10.8 million to run schools, about $15,496 per student, plus $146,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.7 million local (mostly property tax), $4.1 million state, $1.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $2.1 million.
Spent $3.9 million — $3.7 million to run schools, about $16,872 per student, plus $195,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.3 million local (mostly property tax), $2 million state, $887,000 federal.
Spent $2.7 million — $2.7 million to run schools, about $18,510 per student, plus $12,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $528,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.2 million state, $834,000 federal.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Coal County about $6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
143 bridges in Coal County: 52 in good condition, 82 fair, and 9 poor (6.3%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| U.S. 75 over BLACK CREEK · built 1952 | 2,200 vehicles a day |
| N3730 over OWL CREEK · built 1938 | 100 vehicles a day |
| E1660 over OWL CREEK · built 1940 | 100 vehicles a day |
| E1669(OLD HWY 3) over CANEY CREEK · built 1940 | 100 vehicles a day |
| 1526C over GOOSE CREEK · built 1946 | 100 vehicles a day |
| N3770 over CREEK · built 1977 | 100 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $7 million of work in Coal County in fiscal 2025, about $1,336 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Oklahoma are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Coal County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Coal County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Atoka County (19 mi) · Pontotoc County (25 mi) · Johnston County (28 mi) · Hughes County (33 mi) · Pittsburg County (39 mi) · Bryan County (43 mi).